The Theme Team

April 15, 2010

Ian Stewart

I’m super-excited to announce to you today that WordPress.com now has an official Theme Team. In a nutshell, we’re a bunch of people who really care about WordPress Themes and want to see them get better and better—on WordPress.com and for every WordPress.org user. And yes, that means we’re getting more themes, more often. 🙂

You’ll be hearing more from us individually in the coming weeks but I thought, to get started, it’d be a good idea to share a few of the Theme Team goals we’ve been discussing. Just some rough thoughts really. But I’m hoping that by sharing them here you can get a better idea of what we’re up to—and get as excited as we are about it all.

Every WordPress.com user should feel like there’s a theme that fits them perfectly, that is exactly how they want to present themselves to the world, that they’re excited to show to their friends.

We want everyone to feel a sense of momentum and ever-increasing possibilities, and to do so we will present as many perfect-fit WordPress themes to as many WordPress.com users as we can.

We will ensure all of our public work represents the best in coding practices, web standards, and technical excellence.

We will craft all of our themes to have a consistent user experience and meet our users expectations and hopes.

We will teach WordPress developers to become the best theme developers in the world. If you’re a WordPress theme developer—commercial or 100% free—we want to help you be the best.

We will ensure all our improvements make it back to the open source community.

I love the idea of meeting the “expectations and hopes” of everyone here by delivering to you the best in WordPress themes. Pretty, painless, perfect-fit ones that just plain work.

Keep watch here for more announcements—and more new themes!

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Wow, that´s great news! I´m looking forward to seeing more variety on the themes, I like my current theme, but I would also love to have the possibility to add graphic on the header. I also look forward to having more flexible-width choices..

Good. I love WordPress and I think forever I will be doing. 😀 WordPress.com is the best free blogging platform in the world with the features that should not be given for free. 😉 And the idea of open-sourcing the entire script on WordPress.org is just awesome.

WordPress has the greatest contribution for what we have zillions of active blog sites on different niches. Thank you WordPress team.

Really cool! I hope that with this great team we could possibly see a few upgrades like a integrated Twitter and Facebook share button. Also the ability to place a Facebook Fan Page widget. Thank you for your hard work!

What would be great news is the news that wordpress.com has installed an editor that allows us to change fonts and background colors by clicking buttons. Just saying … it’s very hard to fathom why these features aren’t available to us here at wordpress.com when they could be. It’s very difficult to explain why there is such a glaring difference between those who have free hosted blogspot (Blogger) blogs and can do these things free of charge by clicking buttons, butt we can’t do them at wordpress.com without paying for a CSS editing upgrade that must be renewed annually.

Sounds fantastic to me. I know that my experience here has been a totally positive one and I look forward to seeing what the team comes up with. You people do a fantastic job with this place and you certainly have my most profound thanks …

I would love a theme that incorporates the above suggestions and is ideally suited to a music journalist like myself. I am also interested in a theme that tells people visting my blog that I am an instructional technologist.

Such good news!
Please give us more customization options! It will be SO great if we can change the background, the text size, the font, the colors etc. And of course – a custom header is a must! I want my blog to look unique and not just the same as lots of other blogs, so more customization options will be really really great.
Thanks a lot!

This is awesome! I am yet to find a theme that fits me best. I am making do the best i can with Vigilance. Which is my fav so far. The most customizable without knowing any css 🙂
BUt few things i would love to suggest:
-i love the thesis theme-any 3 column version of that would be great.
-three column with a customizable header and yes customizable font sizes.
-I love vigilance…but i wish i could make the font size a bit smaller for thr the posts 🙂
-a theme thats SEO ready
But i am so gald you guys are on with a team! Means more fun for us here at wordpress.com!YAY!

I love to change my themes from time to time to shake things up a bit; it helps me ‘clean house’ periodically, and is a nice change to viewers! Thank you and keep ’em coming! I love 3 column with color options. God Bless!

Big, big, thanks and much gratitude for finally nailing this side of blogging for all of us who enjoy decorating, and re-decorating, our spaces often. For a long time now I’ve wanted to be able to change themes at least each season to reflect the changing colors, energies, moods and attitudes etc.

Under the hood can totally rock but if the car body is painted a dull grey primer, it just doesn’t catch the eye or heart. Seriously, thank you for this. XOXOXO

THANK YOU! I am so excited about this. I always check out the new themes but still haven’t found “the one” yet. I agree with some of the above comments which mention more easily customizable fonts for free. Thanks for everything yall do!

Hooray! Thank you, WordPress! Now… Please create more themes with customizable headers that users can replace with their own image; Been waiting and waiting, praying each time when a theme is released that it has that option. Much love, and thanks again.

OMG this is why i love wordpress 😀
please think about more themes where bloggers can be creative and free to express their own designs. im using vigilance right now and i love having the ability to change colors, adjust columns, etc. THANKS~!

I left below comment at your other site.. Here it is and it was meant for the wordpress.com blogs.

I think it is also important to update/upgrade the themes that’s been in use for long time. It is fine to introduce new themes, but the old ones shouldn’t be left alone and should be updated to reflect the changing trends and new features. If an old theme cannot be updated, than it should be dropped with ample notification. Just a personal suggestion.

Fantastic! I’m still looking for my perfect theme. I’m using regulus because I love the theme options and the custom header, but I wish there were more themes like it!
I hope you guys will create my perfect theme one day!
~Sara

Thank you, I love WordPress…..This is an awesome place. May God bless you all. You do a lot for us writers.
Where else can we find such great and talented, technical people, who give of themselves like you folks do?
I am telling you, I haven’t found any one, or anything like WordPress. And so I just say thank you….

It would be great if WP developer bring more great themes to us. I suggest more personalized themes. Like music, art, sport, culture or nationality. We wait your creativity in themes making art… VOILA!